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In an attempt to head off calls for US registration of paranormals / metahumans / superpowered individuals, a coalition of American hero teams proposed a team be created to keep an eye on superhero activity.  This group, known as Oversight, is composed of three superheroes plus three government and/or civilian representatives, with additional superheroes or government agents called in for short-term assignments as needed.  (So a PC superhero might get asked to work with Oversight on a particular investigation or assignment.)

 

Government / civilian reps are selected by US Congress, while superhero members are selected by the various hero teams participating in Oversight.  Oversight is typically sent to look into superpowered activity at the President's request, but they regularly report to Congress on superhero activity.

 

Active membership in Oversight rotates on an annual basis, so the postings here are for the current members.

 

Examples of government or civilian reps could be US marshals, FBI agents, US military, federal prosecutors, Senate or House members, special investigators, journalists.

 

Please provide info on either one of the three current superheroes, or one of the three current government / civilian reps assigned to Oversight.

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People wonder what happened to The American Protector. He is part of Oversight although the hero teams usually do not know it. The 'hero' had supporters in Congress and the Senate in spite of (or maybe because of) what he did. He is one of the Government appointees and attends in airforce uniform. The government side wanted someone who would do anything to restore order if needed and you knowwho fits that bill to a tee.

He dislikes the assignment as he finds himself often stymied by the others if direct action using force (particularly excessive force) is required.

The heroes and some of the other people do not know it is the American Protector as he is introduced as Colonel William Rodgers and he feels no compulsion to rectify that.

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Warren Gatland is another of the government appointees. He is a by the book person and has an encyclopedic mind when it comes to what laws apply when and where. He can also pick up the relevant codes that a hero or villain might have broken and has presented to House Committees on what new ones might need adding if the heroes or villains find ways around existing legislation. He does not like Colonel William Rodgers who seesmto think violence and oppression are the answers to everything. Honestly who does he think he is ? The American Protector ?

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Chamelia Lions is a FBI Forensic Specialist of Batman-eske skillevel. By now she has over a decade of experience in her field and she is still in her prime.

While she agrees that sometimes force is nessesary and has a bit of a crush on Colonel William Rodgers, she does think he is overdoing it with his excessive willingness to use force.

 

But there is more to her then meets the eye:

When the registration was first proposed, it was aimed at mutants. The other supers simply got dragged into it, because many opposed the idea.

What nobody knows so far is that she is also a Shape Shifting Mutant, formerly know as "Chameleon". While she can only mimik other women, her immitation is very strong going up to DNA level. This level of imitation is enabeled (but also limited) by her ability to "taste" DNA, allowing her to work like a human DNA tester (but she rarely uses that to shortcut an identification, being worried about her cover) as well as mimik everyone she saw and has a DNA sample off.

 

Despite her secret identity profession she never had any interest in world saving, only appearing when someone close to her was in danger. She mostly wants to life a normal life. While she is still not interested in world saving, Oversight beats the alternative by lenghts. So she is commited to "make it work".

That from all the agents exactly she was choosen was simply due to her skill and is a really wierd case of irony.

 

 

Note:

This is a former character concept, that I never got to play. Since FBI was mentioned it seemed fitting to use her here.

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At one time, Jocelyn Head was the superhero known as Ultimate Detector, with a nearly unrivaled array of supersenses and a fighting style that took full advantage of them.  VIPER got really tired of her, and in a series of attacks managed to cripple most of her senses.  However, she retains the ability to detect and analyze superhuman abilities in a citywide area, and even more accurately in individuals.  This makes her a valuable member of Oversight as Analysis.

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THE COMMANDER.

 

when OVERSIGHTS  tactial teams enter the field they are lead by the COMMANDER a faceless seemingly unkillable combat genius but the truth is somewhat diffrent

 

Commander William "Chaos" Cartigan was the Office of Navel Intelligence's best field agent.

 

During a mission to recover a stolen prototype Neural Disrupter Commander Cartigan was exposed to a massive burst of electromagnetic radiation when the  device exploded in the hands of the villain who had stolen it when he attempted to fire it at cartigan. Cartigan survived but testing afterwards showed a marked increase in his mental abilities he developed savant like abilities total recall lightning calculations  even his physical capabilities increased his reflexes and coordination becoming super human. with his new abilities cartigan was a tactical and strategic genius,  Cartigan operated for several years as ONI's elite super agent until complications arose from the incident that empowered him.

 

it started with tremors and muscles spasms and ended with a massive stroke that left him paralyzed and dependent on life support/

 

Now he works for OVERSIGHT from his secure command bunker tied into OVERSIGHTS vast data networks he plans operations and over all strategy for oversight.

 

The agents who lead OVERSIGHT tactical operations are specially selected and trained by Cartigan to be the very best the organisation has to offer and are them fitted with a device that allows the commander to ride along experiencing everything through the agents senses and delivering tactical orders. all of the agents wear an identical uniform which disguises all distinguishing features so that it appears that The COMMANDER is everywhere un-kill able unstoppable and omniscient.

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The Morpheum Club

 

on a quiet street in central London is a classic town house belonging to a singular club founded by Sir Graham Warming who suffers from a rare medical condition that causes him to lapse into periodic comas in which his body is seemingly kept in suspended animation the first time he fell into a coma  in 1810 he awoke 50 years later un-aged to find the world much different.

 

His wealth was much greater due to the powers of compound interest for the next several years he learnt all he could of the new world he met several other individuals who had similar experiences immortals time travelers and dimension hoppers.

 

 due to his fear of the next time he would go into stasis he established the Morpheum club a place to maintain his body during his suspensions and provided with an in house librarian and historians who would create a definitive history for him. the Morpheum club is now a home away from home for the temporally or reality displaced with several specialists who help people adjust to the current time line the library has the finest collection of current events, histories, futuries and otherries in the world maintained by specialist librarians and historians  the kitchen is superb and the chef is an expert at historical cuisine and the club has a very interestingly stocked wine cellar. the sleeping sir warmings is attended to in a bunker beneath the club and the upper floors contain a number of rooms for members without other accommodation.

 

membership is open to anyone from another time or reality weather traveler, accidentally displaced or immortal 

 

describe 6 current members of the club.

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The knock was quiet, hesitant, as if the person outside wasn't sure this was the right door.  Reginald, majordomo for the Morpheum Club, opened the door to see a  young lady in a gingham dress with only a light cloth jacket to protect her from the cold outside.  Her long brown hair was tied back with a red ribbon.  "Good afternoon, miss.  Please, step inside.  You must be freezing out there."

 

The girl nodded, her teeth chattering, and stepped inside, being careful not to brush against Reginald.  "I...  I'm not sure if I should have come here.  He gave me this..."  She showed Reginald a small business card, frayed at the edges and a bit stained with blood, with the Morpheum Club's address still readable under a bloody thumbprint.  "... as he was dying.  That, and this."  She held up a brass pocket watch with a large bullet hole through it.

 

"Who was it that gave you that card, miss?  And that watch?" Reginald asked, though he was pretty sure he already knew the answer.

 

"He said his name was Nicky."

 

"Young Nicholas."  Reginald shook his head sadly,  "And you say he died?  A pity.  Sir Graham was rather fond of the lad."  As the girl's eyes began to tear up, Reginald went to take her arm and lead her into the study.  "There, there, mi..."  She tried to pull away, but wasn't able to before he touched her -- and then he disappeared.

 

The girl sat on the floor and began to cry in earnest.  "Why is this happening to me?  What is happening?  Where am I?" 

 

After a few minutes, Reginald reappeared, moving as he had been before he disappeared.  "... ss.  No need to..." He stopped, startled to find her now sitting on the floor a few feet away from him, and paused in thought.  "Temporal displacement of others.  Apparently involuntary.  How fascinating," he said quietly, then knelt across from the girl.  "Relax, child, you're safe here.  No need for tears."  He took out a handkerchief and let it drop onto her leg.  "Where are you from, miss?"  Taking a look at her clothing, and noting the way she jumped when a car horn sounded outside, he added, "And when -- what year was it before you arrived here?"

 

"I'm from Oak Junction.  Kansas Territory.  And it's 1843."

 

"Not at present," Reginald said kindly.  "There's no easy way to say this, miss.  You have been moved through time, to 2015.  Apparently because of that."  He nodded at the broken pocket watch.  "But perhaps one of the members of the Club can help return you to your home, and your time."

 

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Unfortunately, that hasn't worked yet.  Every time Sarah Wilder was taken back to 1843, she immediately returned to 2015.  Now known to the other club members by the nickname SkipTime, she is trying to get used to a completely different world.  She has learned how to somewhat control her ability to make anybody touching her  (or anything she touches with her hands) skip forward anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours forward in time.  She can now keep from automatically "skipping" someone in time with minimal effort.  With concentration and a little luck, she can specify how far forward she sends somebody.  With extreme concentration and a lot of luck she's even been able to send someone else backwards in time (though not extremely far - the longest she's done is a few hours).

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The Legionary

 

When a peace accord was reached between the Sentinals and the Roman Empire of Earth 12, one of the footsoldiers was left on our Earth as a representative. Internal bickering in the Senate meant that a more well known and respected candidate could not, or would not, be picked. They wanted to stay at home and manoevre for power. Some thought that by picking a mere footsoldier that would be seen as an insult by the people of Earth. Which goes to show that the Empire does not understand America and Americans. Marcus Lucius Cornelius Vascus finds the world peculiar. He does not get the whole One God thing. Or the fact that slavery has been outlawed. Or that soldiers no longer use shields but the police still do. He has become a member of the club to understand the  world better and trades what he knows about his home and its structures for information on what happened to destroy the Empire here.

It is the one place where he lets his guard down. At other times he can keep his mouth shut. After all he served in a Legion and you get things done for right or wrong by doing what you are old and keeping your mouth shut.

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Kay Shen, The Dragon of Shang Hai, visits the club every few years. Every time he arrives, he has been wounded, and he looks different from the last time. When asked, he puts it down to stepping out the wrong door at the wrong time. He leaves when he has healed up.

 

There is two theories. One is that Kay is really a bunch of different versions of the same man who know about the club and use that to hold up before returning to their original divergent line.

 

The other theory is Kay navigates across divergent timelines and that changes his appearance as he goes.

 

Kay wont confirm either thought

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The Timewalker

 

This is a time traveller who apparantly has it as an inherent ability rather than having a device that lets him do it (i.e. a TARDIS). He can only take himself places and not anyone or anything else. Instead of being jaded or a thrillseeker he seems to help people. However in history books or accounts there is never any mention of him. He also does not let anything anacronistic be left in the past when he travels there. He is also the 'oldest' member of the club having been there at its creation. He also tries to help those who seek the help of the club by travelling backwards and forwards in time to get answers for them or for the club in case of infiltrators/saboteurs/parasites. He only smiles enigmatically when asked about what money he has and what he does with it. The theory among some is that he placed a number of bets and made money from bookmakers that way but never that much all in one shot that would attract undue notice.

Sir Graham views him as a close friend.

 

Next one gets to pick the next team.

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Thats what i get for waiting for others to post so I don't hog the thread. im gonna post a couple of extra members of the morpheum club under as a spoiler before my alien hero

 

 

 

Mau (aka Tiddles or Mrs Slocombe's pussy)

 

 Mau is the library cat she is a black cat notable only for the patch of white fur in the shape of an ankh under her left eye .

 

Mau is something of a mystery, she  was bequeathed to  the chief librarian by Mrs Slocombe, an elderly neighbour of his grandparents .He had been interested in the cat after returning to his grand parents home after many years and encountering the cat which was seemingly the same age as she was when he had played with the cat in the back garden as a child. he asked his neighbour about it who by this time was well into her 90s.

 

She claimed that she was given the cat by an uncle when she was a very small girl. her uncle had told her he that he had found the cat wandering in no mans land during the Somme in 1916. Amongst mrs slocombes effects where some faded photos of the cat with its unique fur pattern in the trenches.

 

Captivated by the mystery the librarian tried to track down where the cat had come from before it arrived in the trench. his diligent search lead him to archives of a french unit, who's trench had been completely destroyed by artillery that day and the journal of a french major who died that day.

 

He mentioned the cat in passing say he had taken her as a mascot for his unit from his grand fathers house where he remembered seeing what must have been the cats ancestor as a child.

 

further research led to the great grandfathers time as a general with napoleon during the invasion of egypt a A photogravure shows the very cat once more this time at the sphinx. unable to find reliable records any further back the librarian basically gave up.

 

until a discussion with a colleague at the secret wing of the british museum led him to find several  statues and cartouches from a temple dedicated to the goddess Bast which seemed to show a very similar cat with a golden ankh under its left eye. certainly mau loves the replica of the cat toy found at the site.

 

Mau is a very normal cat believing the library to be her own domain and all the librarians and vistors her servants. she also seems to a be a lot smarter than a cat should be many stymied researcher has had the experience of taking a break to stroke the cat only for to nudge them to a book with the information they need or for her to lead them to another person who knows the answer. (at least one marriage started this way.).

 

William Savage

 

William is the clubs head of security. he is not a native of this timeline in his version of history   the berlin wall never fell the crumbling soviet union was replaced by a fascist military junta, who invaded the UK.

 

Savage was a long haul truck driver who returned home  as para troopers filled the skies to find his house destroyed his family dead and his nation conquered taking his trusty shot gun and with nothing further to lose he went on to become `one of the key figures of the resistance. on the eve of victory word got to Savage of a final weapon belonging to the invaders that would cement there hold on the nation Savage lead a team of his best agents into the research facility .

 

They succeeded but the strange device exploded catapulting Savage to an alternate earth he has been stuck here for several years he guards the club from all comers with is trust shotgun but deeply wishes to return to his own time line to ensure his britian is free.

 

 

 

 

 

and now my alien hero 

 

Adam Silver

 

Adam was a system admin for a small internet back bone service in Kansas he was very good at his job people said it was like he could talk to the servers and hear bad code. and that was adams secret he was a very low level mutant Cyberpath that was until the fateful day that the alien probe crashed into the server center the silver nanotech ooze(silver ooze probe page 39 of villainy amok) consumed his coworkers first consuming there every thought and memory Adam knew nothing about working hard in the sealed server room he didnt hear the screams over the sound of the fans.

 

Until the silver tide ate through the door and devoured him and the servers, Adam wasn't completely destroyed unlike his coworkers.

 

His mutant gift kicked into high gear as the probe consumed him and his mind merged with that of the machine now the probe could understand things it hadn't before fear anger hatred but also compassion love and shame the probe was ashamed of what it and it's batch mates had done across the galaxy. the ooze is a gestalt being with adams personality and emotions interwoven with the probes coding.

 

It has taken on adams shape manifesting as a version of adam as if extruded from mercury.

 

 Adam also experiences periods where he is affected by the personalities and memories of other victims of the probes usually when he encounters significant objects from their lives.

 

Adam is extremely durable able to reconstitute from even a small fragment of the ooze. the ooze can pass through any opening. a tractor beam system gives him superhuman telekinetic strength .

 

he also has the power to absorb data from any storage device(including a large chunk if the internet) and access the memories of any being consumed by the probe network making him an expert on almost everything. he is unable to upload to the network he was cut off when he went rogue( he is considered a virus that might spread).

 

he also has the ability to detect sentient life and other silver ooze probes at great distances. Adam finds him self at war with the unfeeling creators of the probes  journeying with the ARR to try and make amends for some of the wrong done by the probe and to save others from the terror of being consumed by unfeeling beings who only value knowledge.

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Tracker

 

Tracker is what they call him. He is a hunter. Yes, THAT HUNTER. You know the one from those films were the hunter goes after people and kills the warriors among them ? The Animator brought him to life, in fact he did this several times so there a few of them that are either now dead or incarcerated. This one has been rehabilitated. It understands what you say to it and can mimic some speech. It stands over 6 feet tall and can make itself all but invisibe. It has tech that is otherworldly including a shoulder cannon. A helmet allows it to see as its vision is unlike human sight. It can see heat very well. It is not that fond of the cold.

And yes the nuclear style bomb does not work. But most people don't knowthat and the Tracker has used this as a successful bluff.

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KylyQ

 

Is a member of the insectoid servitor race the selenites. she is seemingly the first of his kind to develop super powers she is a technological genius able to construct remarkable devices from cannibalised parts at remarkable speeds. she was forced to leave her people and their work servicing the ancient lunar city of Selene due to the machinations of her brood mate Grlthk(Who is trying to make the selenites attack earth as their father Grlshl did before,). she now travels the universe with the ARR as there ships engineer and science/technical officer in an attempt to atone for her families sins.

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BUMP

 

as this team seems to have lost momentum i'm gonna post 3 more and start a new team.

 

Hugh Albert  Mann 

 

Was a normal west virginian self described red neck he liked huntin' fishin' and fixing up his pickup "Mabel-Ann" .

 

Hugh was just the kind of guy who gets abducted by aliens on a deserted stretch of road late at night which he did.

 

unfortunately for the Scientific team that abducted him Hugh has a steel plate in his head (due to a youthful accident with a varmint rifle a steel plate target and a really wild ricochet).

 

The steel plate ment that the neural disruptor that would have knocked him out and left him with hazy memories of his abduction didn't work.

 

rather than return a human to earth with a complete memory they dumped him on a space station set up at a hyperspace junction which was where hugh found out that there where a lot more humans in the universe than anyone thought seemingly aliens had been abducting captive populations of humans for millennia using them as slave labour as warriors and even as food Humans had developed a ferocious reputation amongst many other races due to there roles as enforcers for the most powerful species.

 

Hugh's love of guns got him a job at a local weapons store and he soon became an expert on every raygun, slug thrower and Energy blade in production.

 

Hugh heard about the ARR and joined in the hopes of rehabilitating humanities galactic reputation as violent heavily armed mercenaries (by being violent and heavily armed! Hugh doesn't always think things through)  he is armed with a wide variety of weapons and will always try to acquire any interesting gun he sees he has been known to have shouted conversations with enemies about their choice of armaments in the middle of firefights.

 

he is also the pilot of the Teams ground transport a grav-sled, he has lovingly christened Mabel-ann II.

 

two more tomorrow unless anyone else has one.

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A member of the Tel'narian Guard trapped on Earth, Nebula has ruined the reputation of the guard with her constant use of the Duress Gauntlets. Both sides of the law want to bring her in and stop her seeming rampage.

 

When Alstoy Alwof arrived after an almost fatal warp gate, his uniform was close enough to hers that he found that numerous people wanted him dead too. He calmed down the heroes while fending off the villains. He is hoping his membership in ARR will one day allow him to return to Andromeda.

CES

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Prince lormo is An exiled prince from the powerful vayrani he is a potent telekinetic and a minor telepath though this is not his greatest gift he also acts as the teams communications linking there minds with his powers. Like the rest of his species he is haughty and arrogant but is seeking redemption. The other thing he brings to the team is his well armed star yacht golden blade.

 

The next team is the seven Wonders 7 heroes based on the seven wonders of the ancient world.

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I've been saving this one since I accidentally wrote her for the Evil seven wonders death tribble posted in the villain them thread back in april 

 

 

NIKE

It was the archeological find of the the last 2000 years a part of the lost Statue of Zeus at Olympia the left right hand and the life size Chryselephantine statue of NIke. the statue was located in a walled of catacombe under athens where it had been smuggled away before the final destruction of the statue.

 

The great unavailing was  held at the ruins of Olympia before being taken to a special museum built in its honor. surrounded by the great and good archeologists international politicians and movie stars in black tie surrounded the curtained podium .then curtain was pulled open the grand reveal the audience looked on in wonder at the statue radiant in the carefully spaced spot lights .

 

The audience OOO'd and Ahhh'd and then there was a shocked silence as NIke opened her eyes flexed her gold and ivory wings her sculpted muscles moving like real muscles.

 

she took to the air rising above the awestruck VIPs circling the site before returning to the right hand landing gently she began to speak in ancient greek. fortunately the audience featured a number of the best linguists in the world. Nike announced that she had been returned to her location and would hence forth resume her duties defending greece and the world from sinister forces. now she resides at the ruins of olympia returning to the surviving hand of Zeus between missions.

 

in  conversations with archaeologists and historians she has provided a great deal of information on ancient Greece and explained that she receives missions from Apollo due to the power of prophecy.

 

Nike is a female statue formed from ivory and gold she flies on her golden wings she is super humanly strong and swift and able to grant boons of victory to her allies that manifest as golden laurels. she rests between missions at Olympia atop the right hand of Zeus seemingly a statue until she awakens to a danger seemingly via messages from Apollo.

 

It was the archeological find of the the last 2000 years a part of the lost Statue of Zeus at Olympia the left right hand and the life size Chryselephantine statue of Nike. the statue was located in a walled of catacombe under Athens where it had been smuggled away before the final destruction of the statue.

 

The great unavailing was  held at the ruins of Olympia before being taken to a special museum built in its honor. surrounded by the great and good archeologists mixed with international politicians and movie stars. all in black tie surrounded the curtained podium .then curtain was pulled open the grand reveal the audience looked on in wonder at the statue radiant in the carefully spaced spot lights .

 

The audience OOO'd and Ahhh'd and then there was a shocked silence as Nike opened her eyes flexed her gold and ivory wings her sculpted muscles moving like real muscles.

 

she took to the air rising above the awestruck VIPs circling the site before returning to the right hand landing gently she began to speak in ancient greek. fortunately the audience featured a number of the best linguists in the world.

 

Nike announced that she had been returned to her location and would hence forth resume her duties defending greece and the world from sinister forces. now she resides at the ruins of olympia returning to the surviving hand of Zeus between missions.

 

In  conversations with archaeologists and historians she has provided a great deal of information on ancient greece and explained that she receives missions from Apollo due to the power of prophecy.

 

Nike is a female statue formed from ivory and gold she flies on her golden wings she is super humanly strong and swift and able to grant boons of victory to her allies that manifest as golden laurels.

 

She rests between missions at Olympia atop the right hand of Zeus seemingly a statue until she awakens to a danger seemingly via messages from Apollo.

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This is the heroic equivalent of death tribble's villian team same rules


 


The Great Pyramid of Giza;


The Colossus of Rhodes;


The Lighthouse of Alexandria (or Pharos);


The Hanging Gardens of Babylon;


The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus;


The Statue of Zeus at Olympia;


The Mausoleum of Harlicarnassus;


http://en.wikipedia....e_Ancient_World


The wikipedia link has links to the individual wonders.


YOU MAY NOT choose a zombie or other Undead for the Mausoleum and similarly ghouls and Mummies are banned for the Pyramid.


7 members. Get creative.


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